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Add ability to update ABC Type, Reorder Point and Economic Order Quantity from the results of running Inventory Reports

There used to be 6 reports which updated the database, and these were removed for 7.6.1.3 and MAS Manage 8.3 when updating to BIRT 4.8 - a security risk with Database Access is given as the reason. A pair of reports each updated ABC Type, ROP and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Planned for future release

Allow One or More Designated Putaway Bins

We would like to have one or more designated putaway bins with the following associated logic: Optionally, automatically create an inventory usage record for transfer to the default bin upon receipt to the putaway bin Streamline transfer to the de...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Allow Count Cycles for Rotating Items to be managed using combination of Count Books and Inventory physical count dates.

Take the most recent (last count date) in the Count Date (COUNTBOOKLINE.PHYSCNTDATE) field from Count Books record for a rotating item and populate this date in the Physical Count Date (INVBALANCES.PHYSCNTDATE) field on the Inventory record for th...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Not under consideration

Provide ability to search for and see count history for specific rotating items in Count Books.

With Count Books being the application designed to provide proof that rotating items are counted the warehouse needs the ability to see the history of when specific rotating items were counted. This will provide one more step needed to help the wa...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Receiving - Add the ability during receiving to attach the packing slip document to the receipt (MATRECTRANS) record - It should also be added to the Maximo Mobile Inventory Receiving

When receiving a set of items, it should be possible to scan a document and associate it with the receipt records and to then to view those attachments from the appropriate MATRECTRANS records. This is best achieved by attaching the packing slip t...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Inventory reservations should be removed when the originating record (MR/DR, WO) is cancelled

As a warehouse manager I want maximo to clean-up my reservations for old/outdated records (Cancelled Invuse, Cancelled MR, Cancelled WO, Closed WO without withdrawal) Such that my automac reorder cronjob gives a clean recommendation for replenishm...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 4 Future consideration

Add Setting to have the Reorder process for Direct Material / Services to create separate Purchase Requisitions for different Work Orders

To automate administrative tasks we are leveraging the Reorder process (and the Reorder Cron Task) to generate our Purchase Requisitions. There is a very common use case though where Multiple WOs are being planned, or approved within the same time...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Flag to Identify that a Purchase Requisition (PR) was Generated by Reorder

System: 7.6.1 Description: Currently Maximo is configured to be able to run the reorder automatically via cron task or to run the reorder manually. When those are generated, the only thing that identifies that the PR was generated by reorder is vi...
about 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Planned for future release

Asset Inventory Moves - Ability to perform mass move of rotating assets between bins within a storeroom or between storerooms and bins.

Why?Today the process of moving assets from bin to bin within in a storeroom or even between storerooms is a 1 by 1 asset process. This is very time consuming. Who benefits?The customers that benefit most are those that use the inventories to mana...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Needs more information

Revise REORDER Calc for tighter control and take Lead Times into consideration.

There are companies ordering and maintaining stock with extra long lead times, and has considerably increased with the advent of COVID.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 3 Future consideration